Banana Cake

Banana cake or banana bread is a type of moist and sweet baked item made with mashed bananas either served with cream cheese icing, chocolate icing or just plain unfrosted.

Banana cake according to history have been invented during the Depression era of the 1930’s by housewives finding other means of making some extra money at home, during this time baking soda and baking powder is also starting to get popular which was a key ingredient in making this cakes. Since this was the depression era, every grocery also find other ways in getting some extra money by selling their overripe bananas and giving away free recipes that uses them like muffins and pancakes. Though all of those efforts were made it did not become highly popular but many cookbooks started to publish recipes for this cake, then the 1960’s came and that was the home baking revival period, that led the fast popularity of banana cakes due to the simplicity of its preparation and the number available recipes in cookbooks.

A really simple baked item which is a good start for those who wants to learn baking, it’s one of those baking recipes that you won’t get wrong.